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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Modern Harvard is a University a University which prides itself on the vitality of its undergraduate curriculum and the favorable opportunities afforded for the development of undergraduate life. In America today a young man when he has completed his school course, has a wide range of choice in regard to the next step in his education. He may decide to enroll in an institution of technology or a military academy; he may choose to enter a small college or to become an undergraduate in a university. If his choice falls on a university rather than on a college...
...first year of college the intellectual interests of a group of students are most diverse, and our method of education continues to intensify this diversification. The specialization of each individual does not necessarily sabotage the ideal of a liberal arts college. If the proper conditions exist for student life, the interplay of divergent viewpoints makes for the most liberal and stimulating atmosphere possible...
...education, in my opinion, is that this process of mixing up the students of different subjects is not continued in the graduate schools. The embryonic doctor, lawyer, business executive, architect, and clergyman would benefit enormously from each other if they could dine together every evening during their graduate school life. At present this is not possible in most universities, least of all, perhaps, at Harvard. We may hope that time will remedy this unfortunate condition...
...successful history of Oxford and Cambridge colleges shows how much of an educational factor the "collegiate way of life" may be. If all the students in Harvard College were pursuing the same course of study (which was essentially the case before the advent of the elective system) or were all interested in the same general field of knowledge (as is the case in a technical school), then many if not all of the educational values inherent to the House Plan would be lost. Fortunately, in each House there is a representative proportion of concentrators in all the different fields. This...
...short years no one can take enough courses to begin to satisfy a really alive and active intellectual curiosity. One of the many things we fail to accomplish in our colleges today is to convince our students that self-education is really possible and can be profitably pursued through life...